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2007-10-24 07:05:06 |
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hi xavier,
i'm starting to understand it a bit more. i want to build a little xml
editor with some extra cms related features for small websites with
lowra, so i definitely need multiple plugins!
you're applicationContext.xml file will be very usefull. ( i think it
will be more or less the same as for pixioc no? )
i don't use mtasc, but i a while ago i found a little program sexier
that i can use to build the dll's. it will do the same job no?
what about dynamically loading plugins? meaning: put some dll's in a
specific folder that will be read and loaded by the program. once
loaded the plugin will update the entire app so it can be used. do you
think this is a possible way to go, or am i making it hard on myself?
Xavier MARTIN schreef:
mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">Hello Stefan,
Yes if you don't need modular application you can use just one plugin
to create your application. Each plugin has it's own models, views,
controller and commands. Each plugin can access it's view using
ViewLocator, Model using MOdelLocator, controller using getCOntroller.
So no, you don't / won't call directly method like registerUser.
Think a plugin as an Application.as class for pixlib.
The idea having plugins is for the reason your specified + modular
application. You can anytime add / remove any plugins without the need
to recompile and republish your main file. You just change the xml and
voila 
When you are starting a project using more than one plugins, you will
need to use the assembler. I have worke on that as it was not yet
finish. My work isn't complete either ( miss some little feature I
think could be nice ) but you can already use it to create your
application.
the assembler ( and all the class it's using ) is loading an xml,
parsing it, creating structure of the application ( DisplayContainer )
loading the loader ( and displaying it straight away - Then everything
is loaded from here with a nice loader displayed ) / dlls / assets ,
then creating them + any plugins / custom object you may have set up in
your xml ( and linking assets to plugins ).
It then call any method you could have called on objects you have set
up ( method call done from the xml too ) and then create all the
channel ( set up in the xml too ).
Then it calls ApplicationInit which will be in your main file. Your
main file only have the few classes needed to do this job.
I have done one and it 44k heavy.
I'm not working with lowRa for long, but this is how I am doing.
Each plugin, is actually just a dll ( code only ). I am creating an ant
task that will compile each plugin into a swf.
For this I have to get an entry point for each plugin that I call
Importers. Those importers are empty classes with private static
variable referencing classes needed for this plugin. So then when
compiling the compiler will look for those classes too and will add
them to the swf.
I could send you my applicationContext.xml file for you to have a look
and understand a bit more how everythign is working.
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2007/10/25, Stefan Vandermeulen <netdust.be">
mail netdust.be>:
hi xavier
i appreciate the time you take to answer these questions!
i don't think my question was valid. if everything exists in plugins,
there's no need to add public api's. a plugin only receives events and
is not available for direct method calls like 'plugin.registerUser(
"me" )'. right?
you replied: Each plugin is actually a MVC+C you are used to use
with pixlib.
this means that a small project can exists of just one plugin,
containing all the models and views? then what be could be the criteria
to split a project up in smaller, communicating plugins? re-usability,
scalability,... ? I'm starting to believe lowra is extremely powerful
and i already thought pixlib was
if you start a project with multiple plugins, is there a main plugin
that initializes all the others and keeps track of what they are doing?
thx ,
stefan
Xavier MARTIN schreef:
Stefan>
Plugin are communicating between each others using channel.
A plugin is broadcasting on a channel, other plugins can listen this
channel and react ( execute a command ) depending on the event
received. Those listener plugin can also broadcast on their own channel
that others can listen, and so on...
2007/10/24, Xavier MARTIN <gmail.com"
target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">zeflashergmail.com>:
I
hope really soon.
Thing is I'm deadly busy.
Working from 9am to 3am almost every day :/
Should be ok in a week or so. Then I will take some rest a bit, and I
should be ready to do this tut.
Anyway I have to do kinda one for my workmate ( as I'm leaving the
company I'm working in ), so you'll see it online too
Sorry about this delay. I really wanna share the few that I could have
learned so far. soon...
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